{"product_id":"the-common-writer-life-in-nineteenth-century-grub-street-paperback-9780521357210","title":"The Common Writer; Life in Nineteenth-Century Grub Street (Paperback) 9780521357210","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Common Writer\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLife in Nineteenth-Century Grub Street\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book examines the conditions of authorship and the development of publishing and journalism during the nineteenth century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNigel Cross (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521357210, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 9 June 1988\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.4 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book examines the conditions of authorship and the development of publishing and journalism during the nineteenth century. It provides a detailed account on the social, cultural, and economic factors that control literary activity, and determine literary success or failure. There are chapters on the place of women and working-class writers in a predominantly male, middle-class publishing industry; on literary clubs, societies, and feuds; on patronage, charity, and state support for writers; on literary journalists and the development of the bohemian character; on the facts that inspired the fictional world of Thackeray's Pendennis and Gissing's New Grub Street; and on the long-running debates on the status of writers and the state of literature. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, The Common Writer adds substantially to our understanding of nineteenth-century literary history and culture.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: the common writer\u003cbr\u003e 1. Literature and charity: the Royal literary fund from David Williams to Charles Dickens\u003cbr\u003e 2. From prisons to pensions: Grub Street and its institutions\u003cbr\u003e 3. Bohemia in Fleet Street\u003cbr\u003e 4. The labouring muse: working-class writers and middle-class culture\u003cbr\u003e 5. The female drudge: women novelists and their publishers\u003cbr\u003e 6. Gissing's new Grub Street, 1880–1900\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social groups [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social groups\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20groups%20%5BJFS%5D%22\"\u003eJFS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46297187418392,"sku":"9780521357210","price":30.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-common-writer-life-in-nineteenth-century-grub-street-paperback-9780521357210","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}